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Auction 142  13-15 Sep 2017
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Lot 1538

Estimate: 200 GBP
Price realized: 1200 GBP
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BRITISH EDUCATIONAL AWARD MEDALS FROM THE COLLECTION FORMED BY THE LATE T.H. WATTS

BRITISH HISTORICAL MEDALS, CAMBRIDGESHIRE, Cambridge, Cambridge University, Chancellor's Prize Medal of Henry, Duke of Grafton, 1768, a silver award by J. Kirk, laureate and armoured bust of George III right, rev. draped female figure with lyre crowning student with a wreath, cherub above, un-named, 53mm, 57.88g (BHM 112; E 728). Virtually as struck, attractively toned, very rare £200-300

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Augustus Henry FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton, KG, PC (1735-1811), statesman. He was appointed Chancellor in 1768, the same year he became Prime Minister at the age of 33. The obverse of the medal was used again on the medal of his successor Prince William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh (1776-1834)
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